I Am
Still Within You
I Am Still Within You is devised by Eleanor Clare in
collaboration with Kam Wan and Marcus Davidson (with thanks to Mathias Arvastsson for technical help).
It will be performed by Eleanor Clare, Johanne Birkeland,
Natalie Sandtorv and Karoline Wallace. During
the performance, singers move through the darkness of the space. At times they will be lit by the projections,
but the emphasis will be on the affect of their voices on the space, and the
movement of sound in relation to the projected images. The audience can
become immersed into this atmosphere, if they so wish. Nebula Fields, a sound piece by Marcus
Davidson, will run durationally before and after the performance, with a film
installation by Kam Wan.
Nebula
Fields
When we
look through telescopes or simply peer at the sky at night, we imagine space as
a vast empty void, thinly populated by stars, planets and galaxies. But modern
quantum physics tells us that even the most remote and lonely points in the
universe pulsate with the energy of the zero point field. So all space is
energy, therefore all space is frequency, therefore the universe IS sound.
The ancient Hindus said that the universe began with the word Om. When you
listen to the space recordings, this word is ever constant. It makes you wonder
what these ancient people really knew. It seems the universe is full of sound,
yet our senses can only detect a very narrow window of it.
All the sounds on this installation are either actual processed recordings of
space sounds made by space craft or land based listening posts, or sounds made
to represent the feeling of engaging with the void of space, and simply
observing it. (Marcus Davidson)
Film
Projection
For me, the Moon
offers endless fascination. Never static in its phase or position in the sky,
it is the epitome of transient beauty.
She is time. She is a
mirror.
She is timeless. She
is a hole.
In taking the Moon's
image, I am not attempting to capture its beauty but rather to acknowledge its
own particular temporality and rhythm. The Moon is a beacon in a way that the
Sun is not. We may stare full face to the Moon but, apparently, we risk
madness.
My wider practice
concerns Nature and physical processes. The body in space and how it endures
duration is a central interest. Through drawing, I always leave an open
invitation for processes and forces external to me to join in the exercise in
many different capacities. Thus change, spontaneity, chance, decay and
solidification are perennial bedfellows. (Kam
Wan)
